Nightline (ABC) - 1992-12-29
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[0:00] Who on your side?
[0:08] >> They are caught in a senseless war in
[0:10] what was Yugoslavia.
[0:13] >> Millions of them without a home, without
[0:15] a country, and Americans want to help.
[0:18] >> We're constantly receiving inquiries
[0:21] from Americans who are willing to open
[0:22] their homes and their hearts and their
[0:24] wallets to help people fling this
[0:26] conflict.
[0:26] >> But they've hit a wall. People who were
[0:29] simply displaced as a result of a civil
[0:31] war are still technically not political
[0:34] refugees under US law. Tonight,
[0:38] questions over a policy of exclusion.
[0:48] This is ABC News Night Line.
[0:51] Substituting for Ted CPP, reporting from
[0:53] Washington, Sam Donaldson.
[0:56] >> Good evening. It is part of our heritage
[0:58] in this country to take in people who
[1:00] want and need a better life. And most of
[1:02] us pay lip service to that proposition.
[1:04] After all, Emma Lazarus famous poem can
[1:06] be found on a plaque inside the Statue
[1:08] of Liberty. Give us your tired, your
[1:11] poor, your huddled masses yearning to
[1:13] breathe free. But the reality is
[1:16] somewhat different. There's the matter
[1:17] of quotas inscribed in our immigration
[1:19] laws. There's the matter of foreign
[1:21] policy considerations. There's the
[1:22] matter of money and space and so forth.
[1:25] Much of the world is horrified just now
[1:27] by the brutal attack on humanity going
[1:29] on in Bosnia and Herzukovina. There are
[1:32] approximately 2 million refugees now at
[1:35] large as a result of the savagery there.
[1:38] Germany has taken in 250,000 refugees
[1:41] from the former Yugoslavia. Sweden has
[1:43] taken in 75,000.
[1:45] To date, the United States has taken in
[1:48] none. Night